1 the quality of being new or unusual, or a new or unusual experience:
3 something that is new and unusual:
Flexible schedules, once a novelty, are now more commonplace.
4 a cheap unusual object such as a small toy, often given as a present:
We sell toys, glassware, handicrafts, table decorations, and novelties at moderate prices.
Why should bird cage novelties be at a high rate but bird cage fittings be free of tax?
The very fact that benefits have been provided as historic novelties in this country has aroused the expectations and impatience which were previously suppressed.
Ministerial assurances made again and again that none of these novelties were designed to bring about a new generation of grammar schools were lies.
People are naturally curious and like to buy novelties, especially when they are financially accessible.
I have said that the scope has been extended to cover the making of carnival novelties.
They are novel, but we are willing to try novelties.
I find that the convention contains a certain number of novelties.
There are a number of novelties in this group of investment funds which may want to become registered under the new regime.
